Saturday, October 9, 2010

Measuring of Economic Performance

GNP.  It is a useful indicator of economic growth.
Total value of all the goods and services produced by an economic system in a one-year period. USA has the highest real GNP of any industrial nation in the world.
Real GNP. It is the gross national product adjusted fro inflations and changes in the value of a country’s currency.
GNP per capita. The calculation of a nation’s per capita GNP takes into consideration that nation’s population.
A rise in the gross national product of an economy from one year to the next year would indicate economic growth of that economy.
Productivity. The ratio of output and input. It compares what a system produces with the resources needed to produce it.
Improved productivity means the economy can grow more rapidly without triggering inflation.
Balance of trade. Difference between a country’s exports to and import from other countries.
Balance may be positive and negative.
National debt. Total amount that a nation owes its creditors.
Budget deficit. It is a situation in which government body spends more money in one year that it takes in. Budget deficit has created national debt.
Popular ways to reduce budget deficit are:
Raises taxes
Reduce public spending.

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